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Despite decades of evidence on the toxic effects of lead battery recycling, companies opted not to act and blocked efforts to clean up the industry. Source link

A man has been arrested in connection with the large-scale illegal tipping of waste in Oxfordshire, police have said.The 39-year-old, from the Guildford area, was arrested on Tuesday following co-operation between the Environment Agency (EA) and the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit. Last week, the EA declared the 40ft-high mountain of waste near Kidlington a “critical incident”.Anna Burns, the Environment Agency’s area director for the Thames, said: “The appalling illegal waste dump in Kidlington has rightly provoked outrage over the potential consequences for the community and environment.”We have been working round the clock with the South East Regional Organised…

Venezuela has told international airlines to resume flights to the country within 48 hours or risk being stripped of their clearance to fly there altogether.Several airlines suspended their flights to Venezuela after the US aviation regulator warned on Friday of “heightened military activity” in the area.The warning came as the US ramped up pressure on the Venezuelan government, sending the world’s largest aircraft carrier to the southern Caribbean as part of a larger military build-up. The International Air Transport Association (Iata) has warned Venezuela’s aviation authority that rescinding airlines’ clearance would only isolate the country further. Venezuela’s aviation authority (Inac),…

Liam Weir/BBCMarven says his life feels “more complete” now he has got to know Rochelle and GuerlineNawal al-Maghafi and Jasmin DyerBBC World Service, FloridaIn a waterside house in the town of Lakeland, Florida, Marven laughs with two women he loves dearly – his sister Rochelle and their biological mother, Guerline.The warmth between them is unmistakable as they celebrate his 16th birthday, even though they spent a decade apart. Now they fear being separated again.Also celebrating is Stacey Nageli Angulo, who adopted Marven when he was three years old, from Haiti, in the wake of a devastating earthquake in 2010.She helped…

One in four GPs are now using artificial intelligence (AI) in their work, despite almost none having formal training or guidance from their employers, new research has found.The largest year-on-year survey of UK GPs on generative AI has revealed an increase in the number of doctors using tools like ChatGPT in their everyday clinical work. Some 95% of the doctors who said they use generative AI in their work reported no professional training and 85% of them said their employer has not encouraged its use.Last year, researchers from the same study found one in five GPs was using the technology.”In…

With Japan’s new leader refusing to back down from China’s show of force and claims on Taiwan, Xi Jinping picks up the phone to try to pry the U.S.-Japan alliance apart. Source link

A “simple” genetic test for newborns that will help to prevent deafness caused by a common antibiotic is to be rolled out across Scotland.Doctors often prescribe Gentamicin to babies showing signs of serious infection including sepsis, and in most cases this is found to be safe and effective. But, for a small number of infants who carry a specific genetic variant, the antibiotic can cause permanent hearing loss.The new procedure set to be rolled out uses a rapid cheek swab which can establish whether a child carries the variant in just 26 minutes, enabling their clinician to prescribe an equally…

The MQ-9 Reaper was conducting a routine mission when it fell into the ocean on Monday near a U.S. military base in South Korea. Source link

The project could offer relief for tens of thousands of Palestinians who have endured two years of war, but has raised questions about whether it could entrench the partition of Gaza into Israeli- and Hamas-controlled zones. Source link

The government acted quickly to tamp down reprisals in the central city of Homs as it tries to manage repeated waves of bloodshed involving minority groups. Source link

new video loaded: Recycling Lead for U.S. Car Batteries Is Poisoning PeopleRecycling lead for U.S. car batteries is poisoning children — and we know because we tested them. Will Fitzgibbon, a reporter at The Examination, describes how children in Nigeria developed lead levels associated with lifelong brain damage, and how factory workers told us they were coughing up black dust.By Will Fitzgibbon, Peter S. Goodman, Melanie Bencosme, Jon Miller, Laura Salaberry, Rebecca Suner and Finbarr O’ReillyNovember 25, 2025 Source link

The trade war with the United States, bans on U.S. wine and liquor imports and a recent distributor strike in British Columbia have Canadians giving their homegrown wines another look. Source link

The project could offer relief for tens of thousands of Palestinians who have endured two years of war, but has raised questions about whether it could entrench the partition of Gaza into Israeli- and Hamas-controlled zones. Source link

Despite decades of evidence on the toxic effects of lead battery recycling, companies opted not to act and blocked efforts to clean up the industry. Source link

The dual-nation island of Dutch St. Maarten and French St. Martin offers lots of frugal diversions, including vivid street murals, hilly hikes and local barbecue. Source link

Pauline Hanson, the head of the far-right One Nation party, wore the garment as a prop to push legislation to bar the garment in public places. Source link

Jonathan Beale, Anastasiia Levchenko and Volodymyr Lozhko in KyivReutersSome troops are resigned to the proposals but many remain defiant, and angryUkraine’s frontline soldiers have reacted to draft US peace proposals with a mixture of defiance, anger and resignation.The BBC spoke to half a dozen who sent us their views via social media and email in response to the original US plan – details of which were leaked last week.Since then, American and Ukrainian negotiators have been working on changes to the proposals – and are set to continue talks about the “peace framework”. Of the original US plan, Yaroslav, in…

One of the daughters of Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s former president, has filed a criminal complaint against her sister, accusing her of recruiting men from South Africa to fight in the Russia-Ukraine war.Nkosazana Zuma-Mncube alleged that Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, who serves as an MP, and two others tricked 17 men into fighting for Russian mercenaries.The men were told they were travelling to Russia to train as bodyguards for Jacob Zuma’s political party Mkhonto Wesizwe (MK), Zuma-Mncube’s statement says.The police say they are investigating the matter, while Zuma-Sambudla, aged 43, has not responded to the BBC’s request for comment.South Africa’s government previously…

Natalie ShermanBusiness reporterReutersHoward Lutnick said it was “very, very important” that Europe reconsiders its digital regulationsEurope should “reconsider” its rules for big tech companies if it wants to see lower US tariff rates on its steel and aluminium exports, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has said. His comments come as officials from the US and European Union are meeting in Brussels to discuss the status of the trade framework that the two sides agreed in July. That deal set US tariff rates on European products at 15%, lower than had been threatened, in exchange for promises of European investment and…

Donald Trump wants a peace deal in Ukraine very badly.Kyiv wants peace even more, just not at any cost.That’s why when the US began pushing it to agree to a deal by Thanksgiving on what looked close to surrender terms, Ukraine pushed back.It scrambled senior officials to talks in Geneva and all of Sunday we saw delegates from the US and Ukraine shuttling back and forth between the two main venues in black limousines with darkened windows.They were joined by national security advisers from Germany, France and the UK.The only time I glimpsed Andriy Yermak, heading the negotiating team from…

Thomas King said he felt “ripped in half” on learning he had no Indigenous ancestry. The Canadian author has dedicated his career to writing about Indigenous people. Source link

China closed off Japanese seafood imports after Japan’s new leader declared strong support for Taiwan. Suddenly, sushi is everywhere on Taiwanese social media. Source link

Russia and Ukraine have conducted overnight drone strikes against each other, killing at least five people.Officials in Kyiv said a “massive” overnight Russian drone strike on the city had killed at least two people and injured six more.The attack in the early hours of Tuesday also hit at least two residential buildings, triggering fires and disrupting electricity and water supplies.Meanwhile, Russian officials said at least three people had been killed in a Ukrainian strike in the Rostov region.The latest attacks come after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed proposed changes to the controversial 28-point US peace plan for ending the war…

Investors say the pessimism looming over U.K. Finance Minister Rachel Reeves’ crucial Autumn Budget this week masks a range of contrarian opportunities across different sectors and asset classes. Ahead of the chancellor’s critical statement this week — which could herald tax rises, spending cuts, or a combination of the two — fund managers are lining up high-conviction trades on U.K. housing, the British currency and beaten-down cyclical equities. A single stock bet on the U.K. housing market John White, founder and chief investment officer of Calibrate Partners, said the U.K.’s macroeconomic and policymaking backdrop is “about as bad as it…